[♦] ‘Telpusa’ replaced with ‘Telphusa’
Thelxion, a son of Apis, who conspired against his father, who was king of Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Thelxiope, one of the Muses, according to some writers. Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.
Themeneus, a son of Aristomachus, better known by the name of Temenus.
Themesion, a tyrant of Eretria. Diodorus, bk. 15.
Themillas, a Trojan, &c. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 376.
Themis, a daughter of Cœlus and Terra, who married Jupiter against her own inclination. She became mother of Dice, Irene, Eunomia, the Parcæ and Horæ; and was the first to whom the inhabitants of the earth raised temples. Her oracle was famous in Attica in the age of Deucalion, who consulted it with great solemnity, and was instructed how to repair the loss of mankind. She was generally attended by the seasons. Among the moderns she is represented as holding a sword in one hand, and a pair of scales in the other. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 321.——A daughter of Ilus, who married Capys, and became mother of Anchises. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.
Themiscy̆ra, a town of Cappadocia, at the mouth of the Thermodon, belonging to the Amazons. The territories round it bore the same name.
Themĭson, a famous physician of Laodicea, disciple to Asclepiades. He was founder of a sect called Methodists, because he wished to introduce methods to facilitate the learning and the practice of physic. He flourished in the Augustan age. Pliny, bk. 29, ch. 1.—Juvenal, satire 10.——One of the generals and ministers of Antiochus the Great. He was born at Cyprus. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 2, ch. 41.
Themista, or Themistis, a goddess, the same as Themis.